"Petrol cars generally produce more carbon dioxide than diesel for every kilometre driven, contributing more to climate change.
However, diesel vehicles emit harmful particulates and nitrogen compounds that have a direct negative impact on human health and the environment."
This is exactly why I would not even consider buying a diesel vehicle. We have long established that climate change is a hoax which only idiots take seriously and even if it did exist, there is nothing we could do about it anyway. Cancer, on the other hand, is very real and there is a definite correlation between it and harmful particulates.
Petrol engines are sheer German engineering excellence while the diesel engine was created by a Frenchman. Do you trust the French with anything besides food and wine? Diesel engines are putrid, smelly, low combustion things.
You cannot beat the thrill of opening the throttle on either a small car or bike then roaring down the highway while a diesel engine will always just chug along, regardless of whether it is turbocharged or not.
I understand the necessity of diesel engines for trucks or buses, though I wish we would just return to railway transportation and ban most trucks, but there is no logical reason for anyone only interested in private transportation to ever drive a diesel engine based SUV or bakkie when the petrol version of the model is vastly superior.
There is a reason why even large American bakkies mostly feature gasoline-based V8's, not awful diesel engines. Gasoline engines are a symbol of personal luxury and freedom while diesel engines are just plain old communism.
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